Relative remembers fun-loving boys believed killed by snake
The day before they died, apparently killed by a snake, Connor and Noah Barthe splashed in a backyard pool with friends.
They had a barbecue. They went shopping with their mother's friend, Jean-Claude Savoie.
It was a close-knit group, like family; Savoie's son was their best friend.
At the store, Savoie let Connor, 6, and Noah, 4, push their own little carts around and load up with treats. They went to his family's farm, played with the animals.
They returned to Savoie's second-floor apartment above his Reptile Ocean store on Pleasant St. in Campbellton, N.B., for a sleepover. Their mother, Mandy Trecartin, lives nearby.
Savoie found the boys dead early Monday morning.
Sometime overnight, a 4.3-metre African rock python, which Savoie kept in a floor-to-ceiling, terrarium-like enclosure, escaped through a small hole and slithered into the ventilation system.
Police believe the snake strangled them.
African rock pythons are banned in New Brunswick, the provincial government said in a statement, though accredited zoos can apply for a special permit to have prohibited exotic animals.
"Permits are never issued to keep an illegal exotic animal as a pet," spokesman Steve Benteau said in an email to reporters.
Ontario, however, has no such rules covering exotic pets, leaving municipalities to come up with bylaws to keep the likes of lions, tigers and African rock pythons out of town.
Melissa Matlow, a spokeswoman for the World Society for the Protection of Animals, called regulations on exotic pets "terrible."
"We have a patchwork of regulations, it varies from town to town, and province to province," said Matlow.
"You can keep a python in your house and you don't need to have any knowledge or training on how to take care of that animal."
In Toronto, poisonous snakes and those longer than three metres are banned. In Brampton, the 1992 strangling death of 28-year-old Mark Neville by his pet Burmese python prompted the prohibition of all pythons and boa constrictors.
Jon Kendrick, business manager of the Reptile Store, said while African rock pythons tend to be grumpy, the New Brunswick incident is baffling. Normally the species either kills for food or, if frightened, bites and then flees.
Still Kendrick doesn't sell snakes that exceed three metres.
"It's always been a strong belief of mine that the average person isn't capable of handling one of those," he said.
Kendrick would support Ontario adopting a law similar to Toronto's, he said.
"As much as it might hinder some people who are capable, it would prohibit many that aren't," he said.
A spokesperson with Ontario's Community Safety ministry, which has previously been under pressure to crack down on exotic animals, said municipalities have the authority to enact bylaws governing animals.
The python was destroyed Monday, its body sent for tests. Autopsies were conducted on the boys Tuesday.
Photos posted on their mother's Facebook account show the boys, usually grinning, swimming, swinging from playground equipment, showing off their muscles and getting haircuts.
Connor and Noah Barthe's family thanked the public for support and asked for privacy. Funeral arrangements haven't been made yet.
Campbellton, New Brunswick's deputy mayor says the community is rallying around the family of the two boys who police say were killed by an escaped African rock python.
Reading from a family statement Tuesday, relative Dave Rose said the boys were typical kids enjoying life to the max. Connor was to enter Grade 2 in the fall; Noah was excited to start kindergarten.
Photos posted on their mother's Facebook account show the boys, usually grinning, swimming, swinging from playground equipment, showing off their muscles and getting haircuts.
On that last day at the farm, they played with llamas, goats, horses, cats and dogs in the hayloft. They even got to ride the tractor.
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